By
Andrea González-Ramírez,
a senior writer for The Cut who covers systems of power.
She specializes in gender issues and abortion rights, which she has been covering for seven years. Her work has also appeared in The Lily, Insider, Cosmopolitan, GEN by Medium, and Refinery29, among other outlets.
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that states can ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports teams, delivering yet another blow to trans rights amid a furious backlash against the community. In the 6-3 decision on West Virginia v. B.P.J., the conservative supermajority ruled that such laws don’t violate the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and Title IX, the landmark civil-rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in schools receiving federal funding.
